"Lament of Jeremiah" - Aika Elemia

Japanese: 《エレミアの哀歌》 - えれみあのあいか

…His breakthrough work was the opera Johnny Plays (1926), which adopted jazz idioms. After defecting to the United States in 1938, he invented his own twelve-tone technique (the principle of circulation, dividing twelve tones into six each and applying a circulation of intervals and a circulation of pitches to each) in the choral piece Lamentations of Jeremiah (1941), which influenced Stravinsky in his later years. …

From "Twelve-tone Music"

…Krsenek learned the twelve-tone technique from Webern, Berg, and others, and began using it in the opera Charles V (1933). However, he added his own improvements to the twelve-tone technique in the choral piece Lamentations of Jeremiah (1942). In this work, he divides the twelve tones into groups of six, and rotates the intervals and pitches within them to transform the sequence. …

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Lamentations of Jeremiah" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…出世作はジャズの語法を採用したオペラ《ジョニーは演奏する》(1926)。1938年アメリカへ亡命後合唱曲《エレミアの哀歌》(1941)で独自の十二音技法(〈循環の原理〉。12音を6音ずつに分割し，それぞれに〈音程の循環〉〈音高の循環〉をほどこす)を考案し晩年のストラビンスキーに影響を与えた。…